The Kindle Chronicles TKC 414 Amazon's Mike Torres on Page Flip
Director, Product Management - Amazon Kindle
Interview starts at 18:09 and ends at 43:26
The biggest technical challenge I would say is creating a seamless Page Flip reading experience across all of our platforms. Page Flip is available on eReaders, on Fire tablets, as well as the Kindle app for iOS and Android. Across those different experiences, we wanted to make sure that things like the performance, things like the fluidity, how it worked and how it behaved—all of those things were both tailored for the experience on the platform that it’s on, but it also felt natural, it felt simple, and it felt automatic.
News
The new $80 Kindle at Amazon.com
The Kindle Oasis
“Alexa, What are Your Prime Day Deals” (press release)
Amazon Prime Day is July 12, starting at midnight PT!
Meghan’s profile at amazon.jobs
“Amazon Prime Day should be much bigger this year than it was last year” by Tonya Garcia at MarketWatch - July 8, 2016
Tech Tip
The new Export Notes feature
Interview with Mike Torres
Amazon’s leadership principles
Word Wise on Kindle
Mike Torres’s Refocuser blog
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Todoist app
“Kindles Can Now Send Notes and Highlights Directly to Your Email” at The eBook Reader - July 3, 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Content
Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski (A Kindle First selection from Amazon Publishing)
“Audible Makes Some Noise” w/ Andrew Albanese at Beyond the Book podcast - July 8, 2016
Audible Channels
Next Week’s Guest
David Burleigh, director of marketing at OverDrive
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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